Grassroots for Hire¶
Walker, E. T. (2014). Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy. Cambridge University Press.
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Mechanisms¶
- Participant Agenda Setting
- Its failure mode is capture and flooding — an organized minority games the threshold or drowns the docket, sometimes through astroturfing, manufactured pressure dressed as spontaneous grassroots support.
This sourceCharacterizes astroturf campaigns as manufactured advocacy made to appear citizen initiated while being orchestrated and financed by organized interests.
- Its failure mode is capture and flooding — an organized minority games the threshold or drowns the docket, sometimes through astroturfing, manufactured pressure dressed as spontaneous grassroots support.
- Public Comment Docket
- Second, the channel is itself capturable by astroturfing: orchestrated, mass, or paid comments engineered to look like spontaneous grassroots sentiment, which drown genuine voice under manufactured volume.
This sourceDocuments organized and paid campaigns designed to appear as spontaneous grassroots participation.
- Second, the channel is itself capturable by astroturfing: orchestrated, mass, or paid comments engineered to look like spontaneous grassroots sentiment, which drown genuine voice under manufactured volume.
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